to force people to accept all the pork

What a mess

@RoseRN, you just advanced to level 9!

They should have made two separate bills

but this happens every year

they put off omnibus until the last minute

shovel in all the pork

and get to looming govt shutdown

Yes, it is no surprise you only see thru the lense of republicans bad. This was never a mystery. I'm saying both,are bad, but the blame will be propogated by the media that its the republicans fault if the reject it in the senate.

It's a tradition.

then they are forced to vote on it

because our lawmakers can not pass a bill without a figurative gun to their head

Best practice don't worry about what those bills say just do what you're overlord say.

I thought it was a good deal.

I thought it was too.

@SoonMrWick I’m addressing this narrative that it’s the democrats putting pork in the bill. This is what I am hearing from the right. Why Trump and the GOP doesn’t want to sign it. You even said “the reasons why they sent it back”. I’m saying it wasn’t the democrats

theres pork on both sides

Maybe they know something we don't.

why cant we split the bills

@james j don't give those welfare Queens a damn dime...

both sides are robbing us

So it's likely the amended bill for more direct payments won't pass the senate?

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

I guess their own as many dummies as I thought.

GOP is only conservative when it ocmes to the american people

foreign people? Govt funding? special interests? pigs and the troft

All this talk of pork is making me want some barbecue....

Both sides say what you want to hear when they run for office, then after they win they only do what they are told by lobbies that funded them. The system is broken

@chuchomucho, you just advanced to level 1!

I haven’t seen a dime in a while. I haven’t touched paper money since the pandemic

i sit like a dragon on a hoard of silver

I hadn't touched paper money for a decade before the pandemic.

lol, im probably a solid 2

Perhaps longer

i cant wait for shit to get worse and i can pay a days wage with a piece of silver

@busillis sometimes I like making my money paper to visually see how much I am spending

How about getting paid directly in rice.

This is my stance. Let it fall.

@SoonMrWick, you just advanced to level 30!

That's the thing about paper money but more cognizant account your back....

@busillis ill give you 10 bullets for a sack of rice